DSL INFO MEMO SERIES 2000-09

August 9, 2000

STATE OF WISCONSIN
Department of Health and Family Services
Division of Supportive Living

To:
Area Administrators/Assistant Area Administrators
Bureau Directors/Section Chiefs
Certified AODA Treatment Facilities/Programs
Certified Mental Health In-Patient Facilities
Certified Mental Health Out-Patient Clinics
Community Support Programs
County Departments of Community Programs Directors
County Departments of Human Services Directors
County Departments of Social Services Directors
County Departments of Developmental Disability Services Directors
Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled
Tribal Chairpersons/Human Services Facilitators
Wisconsin Hospitals
Wisconsin Nursing Homes

From:
Sinikka McCabe,  Administrator
Division of Supportive Living

Re: DSL Reportable Death Review Division of Supportive Living Committee 1999 Annual Report

Attached is the Division of Supportive Living’s (DLS) 1999 Annual Report of the reportable deaths reviewed under ss. 48.60(5) (a), 50.035(5) and 51.64, Wis. Stats., (created by 1989 Wisconsin Act 336). DSL has the responsibility to investigate the circumstances of a death of a person served by a variety of institutional, residential and community-based treatment programs overseen by DSL when there is reasonable cause to believe that the death resulted from the use of a physical restraint or seclusion, a psychotropic medication, or is a suicide.

For more information about the annual report, please contact the Central Office Coordinator, Michael A. Peters.

CENTRAL OFFICE CONTACT:
Michael A. Peters
Coordinator of Special Investigations
Division of Supportive Living
1 West Wilson Street
P. O. Box 7851
Madison, WI 53707-7851
(608) 266-6989
e-mail: PeterMA@dhfs.state.wi.us

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NAMI of Wisconsin and Local Affiliates
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Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy
Wisconsin Council on Developmental Disabilities
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